White House photo caption omits husband of Luxembourg’s gay PM

The name of Gauthier Destenay, the husband of Luxembourg prime minister Xavier Bettel, didn’t appear in the original caption to the official White House photograph. Destenay’s name later appeared in an edited version of the caption.

worldUpdated: May 28, 2017 18:39 IST

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First Gentleman of Luxembourg Gauthier Destenay is pictured during a visit of the First Ladies to a shop of Belgian fashion label Delvaux, on May 25 in Brussels, on the sidelines of the NATO summit.(AFP Photo)

The White House omitted Gauthier Destenay, the husband of Luxembourg’s openly gay Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, from the caption to an official photograph of the spouses of Nato leaders taken at this weeks summit in Brussels.

Destenay, a Belgian architect, married Bettel in 2015, becoming the first same-sex spouse of a leader of a European Union member state, the Guardian reported on Saturday.

American First Lady Melania Trump was identified twice in the original caption to the official White House photograph, which was taken by Andrea Hanks and posted to Facebook on Saturday in a collection of pictures from Trump’s nine-day international tour.

Destenay’s name later appeared in an edited version of the caption.

(LtoR) First Lady of France Brigitte Macron, First Lady of Turkey Emine Gulbaran Erdogan, First Lady of the US Melania Trump, Queen Mathilde of Belgium, Stoltenberg's partner Ingrid Schulerud, Partner of Bulgaria's President Desislava Radeva, partner of Charles Michel Amelie Derbaudrenghien, (back row, LtoR) First Gentleman of Luxembourg Gauthier Destenay, partner of Slovenia's Prime Minister Mojca Stropnik and First Lady of Iceland Thora Margret Baldvinsdottir pose for a family photo before a diner of the First Ladies and Queen at the Royal castle in Laken/Laeken, on May 25 in Brussels.
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